2 until 23 September 2017 with Performances every Friday and Saturday

PV, Friday, 1 September, 7 until 9pm

The exhibition You might actually learn something consists of five different performances. But maybe they're not really performances. At least that's not what I call them. Instead, I like to refer to them as workshops. Because a performance you can like or dislike. You can encourage your friends to see it, but you can also discourage them. And although that can still happen with the performances in this exhibition, there's a reason why I call them workshops instead. Because I'm convinced that no matter what will happen and what your experience will be, at the end of the day you will have actually learned something.

--

As part of his first solo show at Tenderpixel, Feiko Beckers will present a series of live performances. He will fill the gallery space with props, objects and a series of stages and platforms that will serve both as part of the events and as installations remnant of the live acts.

In his practice, Beckers uses everyday stories based on events from his own life, including failures, accidents or embarrassing situations that he has personally experienced. His works highlight the unexpected and the merciless character of unfortunate events. He often examines behavioural patterns as a source anxiety, in order to unfold their dynamics and expose the underlying emotional charge. Starting from daily rituals that he unfolds into slap-stick like situations, the seemingly mundane stories and simple encounters become exemplary of the difficulties humans have with each other.

Feiko Beckers: A disappointment you can rely on. A workshop on avoiding disappointment.

Feiko Beckers: A disappointment you can rely on. A workshop on avoiding disappointment.

Feiko Beckers: A disappointment you can rely on. A workshop on avoiding disappointment.

Feiko Beckers: A disappointment you can rely on. A workshop on avoiding disappointment.

Feiko Beckers: A disappointment you can rely on. A workshop on avoiding disappointment.

Feiko Beckers: It can happen to anyone. A workshop on processing guilt.

Feiko Beckers: It can happen to anyone. A workshop on processing guilt.

Feiko Beckers: It can happen to anyone. A workshop on processing guilt.

Feiko Beckers: A thing you can't, but also don't want. A workshop on handling frustration.

Feiko Beckers: A thing you can't, but also don't want. A workshop on handling frustration.

Feiko Beckers: A thing you can't, but also don't want. A workshop on handling frustration.

Feiko Beckers: A thing you can't, but also don't want. A workshop on handling frustration.

Feiko Beckers: A problem lost is a problem solved. A workshop on problem solving.

Feiko Beckers: A problem lost is a problem solved. A workshop on problem solving.

Feiko Beckers: A problem lost is a problem solved. A workshop on problem solving.

Feiko Beckers: A problem lost is a problem solved. A workshop on problem solving.

Feiko Beckers: A problem lost is a problem solved. A workshop on problem solving.

Feiko Beckers: Good with girlfriends. A workshop on overcoming insecurity.

Feiko Beckers: Good with girlfriends. A workshop on overcoming insecurity.

Feiko Beckers: Good with girlfriends. A workshop on overcoming insecurity.

Feiko Beckers: Good with girlfriends. A workshop on overcoming insecurity.

Feiko Beckers: Good with girlfriends. A workshop on overcoming insecurity.

Installation photography by Orestis Lambrou.

Feiko Beckers (b 1983, in Witmarsum, the Netherlands), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He graduated from Academie Minerva in Groningen in 2006 and he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam NL in 2010-11. In 2013 he was an artist in residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris FR; and in 2016 at Tembe Art Studio in Moeng Suriname and in Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag NL.